Tag: Family
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Midwest Values Tainted
Those of us who live in flyover territory with our specialty, being Farm Families; the times are really showing. The farm best of the Midwest has always held staunchly to conservative values God, Family and Country. There are families that are teaching their kids right it’s just that the public educational system is so unreasonable…
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Morning Blues
My Mom and I had to get up awfully early this morning. My uncle’s MRI was scheduled for 8:30 am. This means we all had to be up early. My alarm clock on my phone went off like clockwork at 6:30 am although things didn’t go quite as expected. After my alarm was silenced I…
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Last Memories
March of 2020 is ingrained in my mind. The days of missing her feeling off because no one could visit the Nursing Home. March 10th was the last day I got to see Grandma Rosemary alive. There were a couple of days where my mom and uncles saw her at least one other time before…
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Standing Up
It’s difficult for me to stay out of politics anymore. I did when I knew I heard a still small voice in the back of my head and I thought no way I could do that. I was wrong, maybe dead wrong. We have to be diligent to listen to God’s voice when He urges…
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Proverbs
Seduction is a trap too easily set for God’s people. Yet anyone who has been in church should know the history of people and their actions. Just like those biblical figures though we are still human and we have to be reminded over and over again. It’s simply the difference sometimes in generations. The older…
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Visiting Loved Ones
Over the last couple of months we have missed any opportunity to see our family. We have tried to check in on them throughout the months. These two are very special people to our family since we walked through the doors to Fellowship all those years ago. Pastor Dean has always been so welcoming and…
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Misjudging… Depths
Do you ever get into conversations you wish you hadn’t started? Especially when you are driving? No I don’t mean anything to do with iPhones! This is completely about conversations in the car before you decide where you are going to go! Okay I was totally alert I was looking back as I went backwards.…
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You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?-Writing Prompt
“There is nothing sweeter in a day than when I can smile from seeing one of God’s Kisses that He allows me to see when one full circle of a story is being fulfilled.” Sometimes I wonder if anyone else can see the stories I see. Surely I can’t be the only one. Believers all…
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Evening Thoughts
For a second time I got to church before Sunday School started. It’s amazing. However, I did not want to get up this morning. I have gone to bed only to get into my room and sit on my bed doing more cross-stitch until shy of midnight. I have another deadline and want to get…
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Residual Thoughts On… Babies!
Sunday afternoon Dad and I assume all his sisters got a text. A baby would be visiting my Grandma that day. We didn’t get there at the designated time and it was meant to be a strictly family gathering; but we got to see him. Since my cousin’s wife works where Grandma lives everyone knows…
Jewells of Thought 